Doug Page

Homeland Technology

Since leaving a withering aerospace engineering career in 1994, Doug Page has been writing about technology, medicine, and marriage peril from the Panic Room in Pine Mountain, Calif. He won a 2006 Tabby Award for a story titled “Life in a Disaster Morgue” that appeared in the January 2006 issue of Forensic Magazine. Page is also a former contributing editor for Homeland Protection Professional and Science Spectra magazines. Contact Doug Page.

LATEST ARTICLES

Law and order for cyber war?

Rules for cyber war proposed to create Internet safe havens by limiting cyber targets and cyber weapons

January 08, 2014 12:04 PM

Doug Page

Study: Time to include mental health services in disaster response

Psychiatrists say disaster-related psychic trauma should be identified, triaged and treated the same as physical injuries

November 05, 2013 05:44 AM

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Locating snipers? Yep, there’s an app for that

The smartphone system, called SOLOMON (for ShOoter LOcalization with SMartphONnes), needs several nodes to pinpoint a shooter’s location

August 07, 2013 06:19 AM

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Communications Interoperability

Bomb threats: There’s an app for that

New app provides emergency managers easy access to map-based bomb standoff distances and hazmat spill evacuation areas

April 12, 2013 06:19 AM

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Emergency Response Software

New tool allows disaster modeling and simulation systems to share data

System gives disaster managers more realistic data on what to expect during disasters

August 23, 2012 11:46 AM

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